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Nikita Vikhrev	#1 Posted on 30-09-2006 19:13
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9480 Joined: 24.05.05	Turkey, Side, sand dunas, 30 sept, about 12-13mm Nikita Vikhrev attached the following image: [67.71Kb] Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


Tony Irwin	#2 Posted on 30-09-2006 21:28
Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7306 Joined: 19.11.04	Tabanus glaucopis male? Tony ---------- Tony Irwin


Nikita Vikhrev	#3 Posted on 30-09-2006 21:34
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9480 Joined: 24.05.05	Unusualy nice fly. By the way I spend an hour near this camels looking for camel-attracted flies and found nothing interesting. But, today morning Dima found this male near camels, as he told me, Tabanus looked semialive. Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


Tony Irwin	#4 Posted on 01-10-2006 16:48
Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7306 Joined: 19.11.04	In the light of your other tabanid http://www.dipter...post_15888, I'm withdrawing my suggestion of glaucopis - the colour of the hairs on the palpi, cheeks and thorax don't fit the description in Chvala et al. I think this is the male of the beast that fed on Dima this morning (probably T. fraseri). I expect it has been described by now, but wasn't when The Horseflies of Europe was published in 1972. Tony ---------- Tony Irwin


Zeegers	#5 Posted on 01-10-2006 17:40
Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19143 Joined: 21.07.04	Well, it is clearly in the glaucopis-group, though it seems to be too slender for glaucopis itself. My guess would be T. obsolescens, which has been recorded already from Turkey (Chvala et al. 1972 are understandably not up to date on this). Theo Zeegers


Nikita Vikhrev	#6 Posted on 01-10-2006 20:05
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9480 Joined: 24.05.05	Thank you Theo and Tony. Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University